LUCKNOW Relentless and non-stop showers lashed Lucknow for nearly 24 hours, starting Thursday evening and extending straight through Friday evening, leaving major parts of the city thoroughly drenched. The Lucknow airport Met station recorded a staggering 86.6mm of rainfall in 12 hours, from 8:30am to 8.30pm on Friday, following an initial 10.5mm logged in the 24 hours leading up to Friday morning, the weatherman said.
The heavy downpour cooled the city, forcing the maximum temperature down to 23.5 degrees Celsius and the minimum to 22.4 degrees Celsius—resulting in a remarkably narrow temperature variation of just 0.9 degrees. In wake of inclement weather, the district administration announced that teaching work will remain suspended on Saturday (September 26) in all government/non-government aided/private schools from pre-primary to Class 12 in all urban and rural areas of the district, said district magistrate (Lucknow) Vishak G. Uttar Pradesh is likely to witness an increase in rainfall activity over the next two days, the India Meteorological Department said on Friday, warning of heavy to very heavy rain at several places and extremely heavy rain at isolated locations.
The weather system, caused after a deep depression over the Bay of Bengal crossed the north Andhra Pradesh-south Odisha coast and moved North-West, is likely to maintain its intensity for the next 12 hours before gradually weakening into a well-marked low-pressure area during the subsequent 12 hours, according to the weather bulletin.
For instance, on Wednesday, Lucknow’s maximum temperature was 34.3 degrees that plummeted to 29.6 degrees on Thursday. The day temperature dropped further to 23.5 degrees – 9.7 degrees below normal – on Friday. Thus the overall drop in day temperature was 10.8 degrees in 48 hours. Barabanki recorded the lowest day temperature in the state at 23 degrees, followed by Hamirpur 23.2 and Lucknow at 23.5 degrees.
Rain resulted in a sharp drop in day temperature in the state capital and adjoining areas. Teaching work will also remain suspended in all higher educational institutions/technical colleges/professional colleges/government polytechnics and government ITIs of Lucknow on Saturday in view of bad weather conditions.
